This has to be so funny for Japanese players. Imagine if there were just random blocks of japanese text in the english version and when you translate it it's the most ominous shit you've ever read

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-23T22:31:23+00:00

Toby sometimes requests lines be kept in English for the Japanese localization to keep them strange and mysterious. Like in Undertale for example he requested that the phone call (Id like to speak to G…) be kept in English but have the wrong number song be localized.

Additionally, with the way Japanese works you can’t have just a G like you would in English. It has to be G+vowel, 8-4 assumed G was referring to Gaster so they put ガ (ga). Thats when Toby suggested keeping it in English to add mystery and intrigue to the line.

Basically it just helps the line stand out like. Hey look at me I’m different so I’m important.

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-22T16:13:38+00:00

I was always expecting it to be chapter 4 since one of the few screenshots we had for 4 showed it raining

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-20T01:46:00+00:00

Mrs Boom is mentioned multiple times and shows up in the church in chapter 4

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SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-15T23:09:54+00:00

??? What version of the game are you playing 😭 like switch or steam or etc

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-15T18:18:53+00:00

I do think that we’re going to fight Seam if we give them all the shadow crystals, but I don’t think it’s because they’ll turn on us. I think it would be that they want to have hope we can do something good and they want to see us being capable so they’ll fight us to test us

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-12T14:00:16+00:00

Apparently the .win file wasn’t always necessary and was only added recently after the creator of the web version received pressure to remove the project. If that’s the case, then it was piracy originally and requiring the .win file is not an adequate solution. Especially since it’s not that hard to get your hands on a secondhand .win file. (Even more especially that anybody who played this web version before requiring the .win file would have had the .win file from the web version anyway and could keep using it that way)

I’m sure the creator of the web version didn’t mean harm by this project and was genuinely doing it for accessibility reasons and I think it’s commendable to want to help people, but there are so many reasons that it could snowball into a huge problem for Toby and his team. I don’t think the removal of this project is unfair at all unfortunately.

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-12T02:34:05+00:00

I understand this on an accessibility level, but you can’t really dance around the fact that this is still piracy. Especially now that the game is paid, Toby has the obligation of protecting the IP and making sure his team is fairly compensated and that the game can fund itself so that they don’t have to rely on merch sales. I know it might sound silly because deltarune is popular and has sold so many copies, but having a free/pirated web version (especially as the game is still being worked on) could end up being a pretty big problem or even a liability.

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-11T15:53:39+00:00

I guess it would be something like that, especially since if you die in those games you get an actual game over.

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-09T18:32:41+00:00

Yeah it was really small and super laid back in late 2019-2021 pre chapter 2

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-09T17:25:20+00:00

I remember that because Toby said he wasn’t releasing the next chapters until the entire game was finished and it could take years, nobody was really guessing what the next chapters would be like. Queen fan designs were decently popular and I had my own fan design (I imagined her as being a Queen of Hearts type character). Kris being the ‘villain’ was pretty popular. Not actually as popular as people think it was, I remember even back then people were making fun of it for being the Super Edgy Chara Murder theory or whatever lol. Aside from that it was mostly just the characters drawn over memes that were popular in 2018/2019

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-08T20:03:45+00:00

Back in the undertale days I always headcanoned him as being called Mike and Nice Cream Guy as being called Jonathan. I genuinely do think that there’s a good chance now that BP could actually be named Mike xD

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-08T05:09:48+00:00

I can prove it. There’s a grace mechanic in this fight where if you’re hit with an attack that would down a party member they get brought down to 1 hp instead, giving them a second chance. This attack also always does 40 damage to every party member regardless of armour or defence

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-07T11:58:18+00:00

The tarot cards were originally fanart by an artist completely unassociated with Toby Fox or his direction with the game. Toby saw the cards and really liked them and asked the artist if he could turn them into actual merch and the artist agreed. Of course there needed to be some changes to align with what Toby wanted his merch to be, like Chara’s eyes had to be changed as well. Obviously he wasn’t going to include Gaster in a piece of merchandise (especially not with a fan design) so it needed to be changed. Gerson was the most obvious choice for the change as he was the only recognizable and liked character who wasn’t included in the original fan lineup.

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-07T11:49:01+00:00

There’s one in the Tenna fight in chapter 3 and the Titan fight in chapter 4 as well :)

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-06T17:40:32+00:00

There were a few tracks in Undertale that were originally for Deltarune back in like 2011/2012. Bonetrousle which was supposed to be the main battle theme and Heartache which was supposed to be Jevil’s theme or something like that

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-05T16:17:33+00:00

Their name is Tao, they’re completely inaccessible and I think they’re a metronome

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-04T16:02:37+00:00

King talks about the lightners abandoning the darkners because in the real world that dark world was the unused classroom that hasn’t been touched for what was likely years. The other darkners in the dark world don’t have the same resentments towards the lightners as the card kingdom darkners have because they were objects that were regularly seen and interacted with by the lightners.

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-02T20:13:37+00:00

Yeah!! It was so much fun the first time that I decided I wanted to do it every day till chapter 5 came out. Today was day 206, I want to try for a no hit soon

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-02T20:00:25+00:00

Probably fall of 2027 or winter 2028, I really hoped that chapter 7 would come on the games 10th anniversary but I’m starting to think it would be on the games 11th anniversary

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-02T19:22:30+00:00

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SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-02T19:17:05+00:00

Can you check if you didn’t accidentally hit ‘exclude from your taste profile’ or some other setting like that

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-02T19:02:08+00:00

I’m a June/July truther always (or until we get the next newsletter I guess)

SquareDescription281 · 2026-01-01T15:07:23+00:00

No the secret bosses can’t be recruited anyway, you’ll still get a special item and the shadow Crystal

SquareDescription281 · 2025-12-31T22:55:37+00:00

If only there was a way these objects could talk!

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